A $4,000,000 budget for 1956 was approved here today by the 15 man executive committee of the World ORT Union at the end of a two-day meeting at which various plans of the activities of the organization were discussed. At the meeting were ORT leaders from the United States, Britain, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Italy, France, Israel, Holland, Tunis, Morocco, Algeria, Iran, South Africa and the Argentine.
Speeding up ORT’s North African emergency program, and ORT’s increased program in Israel were two of the major items on the committee’s agenda. Efforts will be made to double ORT’s work in North Africa this year. Special emphasis will be laid on vocational training of adults in Morocco. Tunis and Algeria. In 1955, reports showed, 4,450 students were enrolled in ORT’s North African training centers for development of skills in handicrafts, industry and agriculture.
In Israel, during the past year, 41 ORT schools were attended by 4,650 pupils, it was reported at the meeting. The schools have recently expanded their courses to embrace a four-year curriculum in the place of former three-year courses and are receiving the full cooperation of the Israeli Ministry of Labor the executive committee was told. A report on another Middle Eastern country, Iran, showed that, in addition to schools training 750 younger students. ORT courses have been begun in that country for adults preparing to emigrate.
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